bpa Wrote: > Would the following be acceptable to a Mac user with little experience > of Terminal. > > mplayer and AlienBBC files could be be put into a single tar ball. The > user could un-tar to a temp directory and then run a simple install > shell script to copy the files to the Alien folder and prompt for a > target folder (default /usr/local/bin) for mplayer. It can then copy > "mplayer" and update mplayer.sh accordingly
I can't see any reason why this would not be ok from a user's point of view. There would be a couple of issues in creating an install script. The installer from SlimServer ofers two possibilities for installation, "For all users" and "for this user only". The two possibilities install into /Library and ~/Library respectively, and produce (apart from the SlimServer preference pane itself) a folder called SlimDevices. The install script would have to allow for both these possibilities. The other point is that Alien gets installed in the subfolder Plugins of the SlimDevices folder. This may exist already (and might even have an older version of Alien in it) or it might not, and you have to allow for all this. I don't know if an install script is worth while in view of all this - that decision is beyond me. Even a rarball might not be worthwhile, as there is also (I think it is still needed) the need to install a version of Lame - and that too might exist already or might not. >From my point of view - but I am fairly experienced on a Mac by now, I'm not sure how difficult it would be for a new user, it's probably time to invite other views - the installation is easy enough once one has found the relevant files, but the crucial point is getting mplayer.sh to work for various places where mplayer might be, and we've worked out how to do that. -- danco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22476 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
